Dorothy Parker

Also see my tribute to Dorothy Parker.

clipped from www.todayinliterature.com On this day in 1931, Dorothy Parker stepped down as drama critic for The New Yorker, so ending the "Reign of Terror" she endured while reviewing plays, and that others endured while being reviewed by her. This last stint was only a two-month stand-in for Robert Benchley, and altogether she reviewed plays for only a half-dozen years in a fifty-year career, but Parker's Broadway days brought her first fame and occasioned some of her most memorable lines.